Duncan Barlow (far left) and d.biddle. If you happen to run into Duncan Barlow around town this week, be sure to congratulate him on his new gig. Next Monday, the d.biddle frontman and Lion Sized bassist will be picking up stakes and heading to Jacksonville, Florida, where he’s accepted a…
Photo: G.Wigler U2’s breakthrough June 1983 performance at Red Rocks, captured on the band’s Live at Red Rocks and Under a Blood Red Sky, is slated to be released on DVD on Tuesday, September 30. The disc will include five previously unreleased songs and a director’s commentary, all presented in…
Teeth Mountain,Christian Meth, GDFX, Hunter Dragon and Spellcaster Sunday, August 10, 2008 Rhinoceropolis Better Than: Ending the summer dreading homework. Christian Meth, a duo featuring Jacob from Sterile Garden doing tape loops, sampling and vocal manipulation through pedals and John Krueger playing what looked like a large didgeridoo through a…
Blue Million Miles, Overcasters, Bad Luck City Saturday, August 9, 2008 hi-dive Better Than: The line-up for the average CD release show. For whatever reason, a lot of CD release shows include one band of the same or higher status than the band releasing the album and one of lower…
Yuzo Nieto and the Hand that Rocks the Dreidel, Oblio Duo, the Archers, Hunter Dragon and Fridge Magnet Friday, August 8, 2008 Old Curtis St. Better Than: Getting beer spattered on me at another show. Unfortunately, by the time I made it to Old Curtis St., Tom Ventura (ex-bass player…
Who: Young Coyotes Dossier: Zach Tipton formed Young Coyotes with Adam Halferty (the Axe That Chopped the Cherry Tree and the Chain Gang of 1974) after Tipton’s previous band, Moros Eros, who was signed to Victory Records, folded this past spring. Formerly based in Marietta, Georgia, Tipton reportedly moved to…
It’s almost quitin’ time. What are you doing tonight? If it doesn’t involve pounding beers at the Bluebird with your friends until you’re Otis-drunk and seeing the most badass rock show of the year, cancel your plans right now! Seriously. Tonight, the venerable rock and roll warlords known as Machine…
Let’s be honest: Most records are painfully self-aware pieces of trash. They’re uninspired, navel-gazing, banal, cliche-ridden, ego-stroking buckets of awful. Yes, occasionally you run across a record that is utterly brilliant. But most sound mediocre-to-good-enough for a few days until our eye catches a shiny object across the room and…
Action Packed Thrill Ride, Sofo, Chuck P and Antz, Mon Marie Thursday, August 7, 2008 Lion’s Lair, Denver The Lion’s Lair can be an interesting place to be any night of the week at pretty much any hour. And by “interesting,” I mean in that Chinese curse kind of way…
We just got word that Jakob Dylan canceled his Rocky Mountain Folks Fest appearance, but the good news is that John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats will be flying in for a rare solo set on Sunday, August 17. KT Tunstall, Missy Higgins, Stephen Kellogg, Amos Lee, Patty Griffin, Nanci…
Regardless of taste or aspiration, great artists are bound to fail every now and again. And as they fail, we all sit back idly, wishing it wouldn’t have happened, but slightly elevated by the fact they did – “ah yes,” we think, “they are humans, too.” But great artists rarely…
Abracastabya Wednesday, August 6, 2008 The Black Sheep, Colorado Springs Better Than: Melissa Bays leaving town without being sent off properly. Everyone who has been to the Black Sheep in at least the past year or so knows Melissa Bays — even if they don’t know her name. She was…
See a slideshow at westword.com/slideshow. Witchcraft, Dead Child, Kingdom Of Magic Wednesday, August 6, 2008 Marquis Theater Better than: Whatever passes for OzzFest these days. The cyclical nature of music has, by this point, become unsurprising. What was once edgy and rebellious eventually becomes comodified, then loses it’s luster and…
3OH!3 is a group you either love or loathe. Judging from the response the act has gotten both here and across the country, most listeners land comfortably in the former category. Stuffy literary types who blanch at the simplistic synth lines, rudimentary beats and admittedly crass lyrics are missing the…
Do you remember when people used to say that Denver was a sports town, that music here was an afterthought and that’s all it ever would be? Yeah, me too. It was a popular argument five years ago. Things have obviously changed since then. At Mile High Music Festival last…
Beck’s back on top. Looks like our boy Beck has reclaimed the top spot this week on Twist & Shout’s top seller list, pushing UmConscious back to slots and outselling Coldplay and Sigur Rós, who are, ahem, holding steady weeks after releasing their latest discs…
The Enemy UK We’ll Live and Die in These Towns Warner Music 01:30-02:15 of “Had Enough”: You know, if you’re going to have your record released on a major label like Warner, you really ought to be able to afford some pretty happening cover art – especially when your bio…
Westword’s August 7 profile on Git Some touched on the band’s history and its new album, Cosmic Rock, but in this extended Q&A, Chuck French and bassist Neil Keener (both former members of Planes Mistaken for Stars), singer Luke Fairchild and drummer Andrew Lindstrom talk about wanting to release Cosmic…
Pictureplane, Josephine and the Mousepeople and Yukon Tuesday, August 5, 2008 Rhinoceropolis Better Than: A fun, sweaty show when the heat was a lot more oppressive earlier this summer. The first time I saw Josephine and the Mousepeople, it was briefly at Louis Vuitton Night in June, and I didn’t…
Although we’ve yet to receive a press release confirming a date, we’re pretty sure Weezer is going to be coming to town on this leg of its tour. At least that’s what we can deduce from the video posted after the jump. Pulling a page from Tom Waits Glitter and…
With the Democratic National Convention quickly approaching, the dance card around town is quickly filling up with noteworthy performers. In addition to the other artists we’ve already reported, looks like noted firebrand Jello Biafra is going to be back in town on Saturday, August 23, for the Slim Cessna/Ghost Buffalo…
Panic at the Disco hits Broomfield Event Center Oct. 17. It’s been an insanely busy week for concert announcements. We also just got word that Moby will in town for DNC and doing a DJ set at the Church on Wednesday, August 27. But in the meantime, here’s a sampling…
